Usually means: Weak, lacking strength or vigor.
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  1. debile: Merriam-Webster
  2. debile: Collins English Dictionary
  3. debile: Vocabulary.com
  4. debile: Wordnik
  5. debile: Wiktionary
  6. Debile, debile: Dictionary.com
  7. Debile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Debile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. debile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. debile: Rhymezone
  11. Debile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. debile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. debile: FreeDictionary.org
  14. debile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Debile: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. debile: Encyclopedia

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  1. debile: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

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Definitions from Wiktionary (debile)

▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Weak; feeble.
▸ adjective:  (historical) Having debilism.
▸ noun:  (historical) A person with debilism.

Similar:
weaksome, simple, forcible-feeble, feeblish, feeblesome, pale, feeble-brained, faintling, weakly, silly, more...

Opposite:
strong, robust, vigorous, sturdy, powerful

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Similar:
weaksome, simple, forcible-feeble, feeblish, feeblesome, pale, feeble-brained, faintling, weakly, silly, more...

Opposite:
strong, robust, vigorous, sturdy, powerful



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